Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...zines" cheaply published by desktop computer and distributed by electronic mail, are multiplying like cable-TV channels. The newest, a glossy, big-budget entry called Wired, premiered last week with Bruce Sterling on the cover and ads from the likes of Apple Computer and AT&T. Cyberpunk music, including ACID HOUSE and INDUSTRIAL, is popular enough to keep several record companies and scores of bands cranking out CDs. Cyberpunk-oriented books are snapped up by eager fans as soon as they hit the stores. (Sterling's latest, The Hacker Crackdown, quickly sold out its first hard-cover printing...
...Learning Link, a computer owned by a New York City public-TV station that provides educational information for hundreds of schools. A chilling electronic message was left behind: "Happy Thanksgiving, you turkeys, from all of us at MOD." It was signed with five code names: Phiber Optik, Acid Phreak, Outlaw, Corrupt and Scorpion...
...Twenty years ago," says pollster Andrew Kohut, "we had the three As: abortion, amnesty and acid. And on those issues, there were big generational differences...
...Vitamin C helps body fight against colds, may citrus fruits, broccoli lower risks for certain cancers Thiamin important in energy metabolism cereals Riboflavin important in energy production liver, milk Niacin needed by hundreds of enzymes for grain products, meat, poultry energy metabolism Vitamin B6 needed by enzymes for amino acid poultry, fish, grain products metabolism Vitamin B12 important for recycling coenzymes animal products for metabolism Folic Acid essential for DNA formation and nor- liver, leafy vegetables mal cell division Minerals Calcium promotes skeletal growth, involved milk in muscle contraction Phosphorus essential component of bone miner- all protein-rich foods, (milk...
...probably more common than we thought," Willett says. "Birth defects suggest that there is a substantial number of women who don't get enough folic acid...